The Persecution of the Jews (Part 13 of 14)

Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression
Volume I Chapter XII

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5. RESULTS OF THE EXTERMINATION PROGRAM The huge scale of
the Jewish eliminations is also reflected in the bookkeeping and statistics
of the Germans themselves. The 16 December 1941 entry in the diary of Hans
Frank contains these figures: "The Jews for us also represent extraordinarily
malignant gluttons.

"We have now approximately 2,500,000 of them in General Government
-- perhaps with the Jewish mixtures, and everything that goes with it, 3,500,000
Jews." (2233-D-PS) On 25 January 1944, three years and one month later,
Frank wrote in his diary these words: "At the present time we still have
in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews." (2233-F-PS)

Thus, in this period of three years, according to the records
of the then Governor General of Occupied Poland, between 2,400,000 and 3,400,000
Jews had been eliminated. The total number of Jews who died by Nazi hands
can never be definitely ascertained. It is known, however, that 4 million
Jews died in concentration camps, and that 2 million Jews were killed by
the State Police in the East, making a total of 6 million murdered Jews.
The source of these figures is Adolph Eichmann, Chief of the Jewish Section
of the Gestapo. The figures are contained in an affidavit made by Dr. Wilhelm
Hoettl, Deputy Group Leader of the Foreign Section of the Security Section,
AMT VI, of the RSHA. Hoettl, in his affidavit, states as follows:

"Approximately 4 million Jews had been killed in the various
concentration camps, while an additional 2 million met death in other ways,
the major part of which were shot by operational squads of the Security
Police during the campaign against Russia." (2738-PS)

Hoettl describes the source of his information as follows:

"According to my knowledge, Eichmann was at that time the
leader of the Jewish Section of the Gestapo, and in addition to that he
had been ordered by Himmler to get a hold of the Jews in all the European
countries and to transport them to Germany. Eichmann was then very much
impressed with the fact that Rumania had withdrawn from the war in those
days. Moreover, he had come to me to get information about the military
situation which I received daily from the Hungarian Ministry of War and
from the Commander of the Waffen-SS in Hungary. He expressed his conviction
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further chance. He knew that he would be considered one of the main war
criminals by the United Nations, since he had millions of Jewish lives on
his conscience. I asked him how many that was, to which he answered that
although the number was a great Reich secret, he would tell me since I,
as a historian, would be interested, and that he would probably not return
anyhow from his command in Rumania. He had, shortly before that, made a
report to Himmler, as the latter wanted to know the exact number of Jews
who had been killed." ( 2738-PS)